[114.04] The Liverpool Robotic Telescope Project

M.F. Bode, D. Carter, I.A. Steele (Liverpool JMU)

The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a high specification 2m
fully robotic telescope in the final stages of construction
by Telescope Technologies Limited. It is due to commence
operations on La Palma in the Canaries this year. Its
initial instumentation is a closed-cycle cooled CCD camera
with a 2048 square EEV detector. The telescope will be
housed in a fully-opening enclosure and be capable of rapid
target acqusition. Science priorities for the telescope
include observations of targets of opportunity, long-term
monitoring of variable sources, and simultaneous
observations with those at other wavelengths. The telescope
will operate in part as a UK national research facility and
5% of the time has been reserved for educational
programmes.

The project is funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy
Research Council, the European Union, Liverpool JMU and a
generous private donation.

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